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 CXI.

Monday evening

Major Jackson presents his most respectful compliments to General Washington.…

Major Jackson, after burning all the loose scraps of paper which belong to the Convention, will this evening wait upon the General with the Journals and other papers which their vote directs to be delivered to His Excellency

[Endorsed:] From Majr Wm. Jackson 17th Sep. 1787.

CXIa.

September 18, 1787.

Yesterday afternoon, about four o’clock the foederal convention…broke up.

CXII.

Philadelphia September 18th 1787

I have the pleasure to inform your Excellency that the important business of the Convention is closed.—their Secretary set off this morning to present the Honorable the Congress with a report of their proceedings and the Convention adjourned without day.

CXIII.

Philadelphia, September 18, 1787.

The important business of the Convention being closed, the Secretary set off this morning to present Congress with a report of their proceedings, which I hope will come before the States in the manner directed, but as some time must necessarily elapse before that can take place, I do myself the pleasure to transmit the enclosed papers for your private satisfaction forbearing all comments on the plan but that it is the best that could meet the unanimous concurrence of the States in Convention; it was done by bargain and Compromise, yet notwithstanding its imperfections, on the adoption of it depends (in my feeble judgment) whether we shall become a respectable nation, or a people torn to pieces by intestine commotions, and rendered contemptible for ages.